“Liberalism and Islam have many things in common includng a belief that hypocrisy (as they perceive it) is deserving of punishment by the government.”

Excellent point. And yet they are different in a very dangerous way: liberalism is essentially no principles or tenets for which its adherents would fight beyond demanding government action while Islam is a religion that not only encourages but apparently demands its adherents to fight and die for. Liberalism turns people into whimps and weenies (or maybe just attracts them) while Islam creates madmen and martyr wanna-be’s. Head to head, toe to toe, the madmen win.